it bears a passing resemblance

[facetiae]

I'm currently reading The Count of Monte Cristo. it's really a very good book. it helps that I read a summary of the plot, and I am able to consult a list of major characters and their corresponding relationships from time to time. and knowing whither the plot will eventually lead helps me stick with it when the telling wanders, as it often does in

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[little_carrot]

No debate from me, the 2002 movie was an atrocity. Although, to be fair, the book is freakishly long, and abnormally complicated, making it tough to fit into a movie script.

[facetiae]

I don't know... the book isn't any longer or complicated than many books of the era. or at least, it doesn't seem so. on the other hand, since I have such resources at my disposal as listed above, that might be why it seems comprehensible on the first go around. =)

as for the movie, in terms of being an adaptation, it basically sucks. on its own merits, it's hard to judge since it so little conforms to anything resembling the book. however, I thought it was interesting that the creators spent more than a few lines advising Dantes against vengeance. give it up, go on your way, let it go. the hanging implication in at least one of these supplications was that vengeance would destroy him or not bring what he sought.

but he continues on his course nevertheless, determined to get his satisfaction. and he does! and nothing happens. oh, Mercedes was hurt, but big deal. he still ended up getting everything in the end, and all ended well for him, etc. etc. why bother with the moralistic crap?

ACTION!

[harleqwn]

That's what I wanted, based on the old remembered previews of the 2002 movie adaptation. And that's what I got!

The book just sounds soooo convoluted with all those, what do you call them... characters and their interweaving storylines. My goodness. That's just too much for me to handle.

*laughs*

Yes the movie was more appropriately "inspired by" the Count of Monte Cristo than based on it. Not a great movie by any means. I still really like the old and young guys sparring in the prison cell. Made me laugh for a long time inside. Great fun! I still don't know what the heck to think of the last scene where he tells his happy ending family he has the prison. What the heck did he do with the prisoners inside of it?

Re: ACTION!

[facetiae]

hopefully he let them go. or threw them into the rocky sea...